Research on the Development Pattern and Technology of Competitive
Business Ecosystem of Power Grid Enterprises in New Energy
Weixuan Meng
1*
, Penghui Zhang
2
and Shuxiao Liu
2
1
Dept. of Corporate Management Consulting State Grid Energy Research Institute, China
2
State Grid Corporation of China, China
Keywords: Development Pattern Power Grid Enterprises Competitive Business Ecosystem New Energy.
Abstract: In recent years, the epidemic continues to spread internationally. The tasks of "six guarantees" and "six
stabilities" are arduous. Power Grid enterprises urgently need to accelerate the transformation and upgrading
of competitive businesses in new energy, improve quality and efficiency, stimulate vitality, support the
company to cultivate new growth points and give full play to the driving force of the new energy and power
industry chain. Considering the existing research lacks analysis on the development pattern and technology
of competitive business ecosystem under the new energy development situation, this paper innovatively
applies the logic method and technology of deriving the competitive business pattern, defines the development
orientation of the competitive business of power grid enterprises, and puts forward the development pattern
and technology of the competitive business of power grid enterprises, which will significantly guide the
business transformation and upgrading of power grid enterprises and cultivating ecological advantages in new
energy.
1 INTRODUCTION
Under the background of energy and power
digitization and marketization, based on the energy
grid and information system, the competitive
business of power grid enterprises is a key business
carrier to rely on and support the leading industries of
power grid enterprises and promote the creation of
energy Internet value. It is a key force to support the
high-quality development of power grid enterprises
(
Meng, Cheng, Liu, 2021
). Overall, the
implementation of the strategy of power grid
enterprises puts forward higher requirements for
Comprehensively Strengthening the strategic support
of competitive business. The development of
competitive business should not only provide high-
quality resources such as technology, equipment,
assets, data and talents for the high-quality
development of power grid enterprises and power
grid, but also support power grid enterprises in
promoting the reform of the energy industry and
responding to external demands Play the role of
"great power and heavy weapon" in implementing the
national strategy (
Wood, 1998
).
2 DEVELOPMENT
ORIENTATION OF
COMPETITIVE BUSINESS OF
POWER GRID ENTERPRISES
2.1 Development Concept of
Competitive Business of Power
Grid Enterprises
In the future, the requirements to competitive
business of power grid enterprises as the carrier of
energy Internet value realization will be more
prominent and clear (
Scott, 1995
). Competitive
business should not only efficiently support the
construction and operation of energy Internet, but
also undertake the important task of supporting power
grid enterprises to fulfil their three major
responsibilities and drive collaborative innovation of
upstream and downstream enterprises. It is urgent to
change the relatively closed business philosophy in
the past, grasp the three key words of "support,
opening and contribution", and promote power grid
enterprises to play a greater role in energy reform and
national strategy with a higher level of basic support,
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Research on the Development Pattern and Technology of Competitive Business Ecosystem of Power Grid Enterprises in New Energy.
DOI: 10.5220/0011753100003607
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open cooperation, benefit contribution and industry
drive.
Consolidate the support capacity and
strengthen the guarantee of main business. The
competitive business of power grid enterprises has
obvious advantages in electrical equipment, power
information communication and so on (
Ansoff,
1965
). In the new era, the competitive business of
power grid enterprises should give full play to the
technological innovation advantages and professional
service advantages of directly affiliated industrial
units, focus on the actual needs of power grid
enterprises to lead the construction and operation of
energy Internet, focus on breaking through the "neck"
technology and core components, and strive to
improve the autonomy and localization level of high-
end electrical equipment and information and
communication systems, take high-quality
development as the main line, be driven by improving
quality, reducing cost and increasing efficiency,
business optimization and reorganization, and
improve industrial operation efficiency, innovation
power and development joint force, and continuously
strengthen the all-round support capacity of
technology, equipment, capital, platform and talents.
Strengthen opening-up and cooperation and
highlight industry driven. The ecological
development of energy Internet is advancing rapidly,
and there is a huge space for power grid enterprises
to tap the internal element value, business value and
platform value of competitive business (
Grant, 1991
).
In the new era, the competitive business of power grid
enterprises is an important window to highlight the
status of power grid enterprises as a "big country and
heavy weapon". We should adhere to the ecological
development concept of deep opening and
collaborative innovation, focus on meeting the needs
of users (customers) and scenarios, improve the level
of strategic cooperation and capital operation in the
capital and market, and unblock the channels for
high-quality resource allocation inside and outside,
enhance the penetration and expansion of emerging
markets; In terms of data and technology, it is
necessary to strengthen the joint innovation
incubation of technology and products, and fully
release the value-added potential of digital
transformation of energy and power.
Adhere to innovation driven and enhance
value creation. The rapid development of energy
Internet provides new opportunities and requirements
for responding to the change of supply and demand
system of the whole energy and power industry chain,
the optimization of industrial pattern, and the
innovation of business format and mode. In the
context of digital transformation and clean energy
development, the competitive business of power grid
enterprises should be based on responding to the new
scenarios and new needs of energy supply and
consumption, strive to give full play to the
multiplication effect of digitization, develop public
service technologies, create online platform products,
innovate business models, expand the public value
creation ability of energy Internet and promote the
sustainable development of competitive business,
provide market, policy and technical support.
2.2 Basic Positioning of Competitive
Business of Power Grid Enterprises
The competitive business of power grid enterprises is
the "new kinetic energy" and "stabilizer" for the
development of power grid enterprises (
Hage, Alien,
1970
). It is the "incubator" for power grid enterprises
to cultivate market-oriented business for energy and
power industry under the background of energy
marketization and technology digitization in the new
era. Specifically, the competitive business of power
grid enterprises should focus on three basic
positioning: supporter, benefit contributor and
industrial driver, so as to serve power grid enterprises
to speed up the construction of energy Internet and
better fulfill their three responsibilities.
Critical Supporter. The construction of energy
Internet of power grid enterprises is a pioneering
system project. The establishment of smart grid’s grid
system and information communication system
requires power grid enterprises to independently
develop smart grid technical equipment and high-end
equipment of components and components such as
UHV bushing, tap changer and smart substation, and
power grid enterprises to increase key technology
research and integrated application in the fields of
automation system, digital platform and
communication, industrial control chip and artificial
intelligence. It is necessary to establish a complete
industrial chain of high-end electrical equipment and
a power information and communication industry
with high level of autonomy and strong product
development ability, so as to provide key guarantees
such as technology, equipment, platform and talents
for the development of power grid enterprises.
Benefit Contributors. Affected by the slowdown
of power demand and policy price reduction and
profit transfer, power grid enterprises will continue to
increase the operating pressure in the future, and
power grid enterprises will put forward higher
requirements for the profitability of competitive
businesses. At the same time, the traditional electrical
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equipment and information communication business
mainly support the main business, and the external
market expansion capacity is limited. Combined with
the latest research and analysis, emerging businesses
such as energy e-commerce, comprehensive energy
services and electric vehicle business have large
market space and great profit potential, which can be
cultivated as a new profit growth point for power grid
enterprises.
Industry Driver. Under the background of the in-
depth integration of digitization and power grid
business, the industrial driving role of new
infrastructure construction and the utilization level of
market factors have gradually increased. The
development and utilization of data, network,
terminal and platform resources by power grid
enterprises is conducive to promoting the operation
efficiency and value creation level of the whole
energy and power industry chain. Therefore, with the
digital level of the industry and the development of
the national digital industry, digital services, the
development of power grid basic resources, and the
design, development and operation and maintenance
services of information systems will play an
important role in driving the industry.
3 COMPOSITION OF
COMPETITIVE BUSINESS
PATTERN AND TECHNOLOGY
OF POWER GRID COMPANIES
At present, on the basis of consolidating the
traditional energy transmission and power service
business, power grid enterprises have preliminarily
arranged competitive businesses covering the whole
energy and power industry chain (such as
comprehensive energy services, new energy cloud,
energy e-commerce, energy industry internet, online
industry chain finance and other key businesses). In
the future, the Energy Internet business ecosystem of
power grid enterprises will show the characteristics
of clear core, cross-border extension and fuzzy
boundary. Based on the energy grid and information
system, and consolidating traditional energy
transmission and power service business, it will
develop in two directions of extending vertically
along the upstream and downstream of the industrial
chain, and mining the two directions of horizontal
expansion based on the reuse value of basic resources,
a business system connecting the whole energy and
power industry chain will be evolved.
With the steady progress of comprehensively
deepening reform, accelerating the digital
transformation of the energy industry and gradually
improving the Energy Internet system of power grid
enterprises, power grid enterprises gradually have the
Figure 1: Derivation logic technology of competitive business pattern of power grid enterprises.
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basic conditions and development opportunities for
the overall promotion and coordinated development
of the strategic layout of competitive businesses.
Firstly, from the perspective of the industrial
foundation and advantages of power grid enterprises,
power grid enterprises have accelerated the
construction of energy Internet efforts have been
made to consolidate the foundation of the energy and
power industry chain, and the group's operation
advantages, service network advantages, whole
industry chain advantages, power technology
advantages, power grid operation advantages,
enterprise brand advantages, talent team advantages
and other significant advantages have provided a
persistent basis for the development of competitive
business.
Secondly, from the perspective of external
demand, energy consumption demand is increasingly
diversified, technologies such as multi energy
combined supply are gradually mature, and demands
such as personalized energy consumption demand,
energy digital transformation demand, intelligent
social governance demand and quality and efficiency
improvement demand of small, medium and micro
enterprises are becoming increasingly prominent,
providing a huge market space for power grid
companies to develop energy and power value-added
services.
Thirdly, from the perspective of policy basis, the
government has issued a series of policies to
vigorously develop strategic emerging industries,
accelerate the market-oriented reform of power grid
industry, accelerate the breakthrough of "neck"
technology, improve the modernization level of the
industrial chain, develop high-end manufacturing
industry and promote rapid economic recovery,
which will deeply tap the value-added potential of
reuse related power grid resources for power grid
companies give better play to the leading role of
industry and provide a relatively loose policy
environment.
Based on the above analysis, the competitive
business of power grid enterprises will start from
supporting the leading industry of power grid
enterprises, be oriented to meet the needs of "users
(customers)" and "scenarios", deeply cross integrate
business scenarios, resource assets and market users,
and expand from point to point and outward through
customer development, resource integration,
platform Association, collaborative innovation, etc,
Gradually form four business clusters: smart energy
service business, smart industrial chain service
business, resource sharing service business and basic
forward-looking business.
Figure 2: Four clusters of competitive business of Power Grid company in new energy.
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4 CONCLUSION AND
ENLIGHTENMENT
In the future, power grid enterprises should focus on
building smart energy services, smart industrial chain
services, resource sharing services and basic and
forward-looking business clusters of Energy Internet
in in new energy.
Firstly, it is necessary to determine the positioning
of "new kinetic energy" and "stabilizer" for the
development of competitive business, and strengthen
the "incubator" function of power grid enterprises to
cultivate market-oriented business for energy and
power industry.
Secondly, combined with the external strategic
environment requirements of power grid enterprises
and the company's industrial transformation and
upgrading deployment, the development of power
grid enterprises’ industries should adhere to the
overall development idea of "2+2+n": two
development points - optimizing business layout and
strengthening business integration; Two means of
development: form a classification path and promote
collaborative development; "N" is the development
strategy of N industrial units.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Authors wishing to acknowledge support from the
State Grid Energy Research Institute Co., Ltd’s
Science and Technology Project "Research on
Evolution and Development Model and key
Technologies of Corporate Energy Internet
Ecosystem supporting Corporate Strategy".
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